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irrecoverable

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[ UK /ɪɹɪkˈʌvəɹəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. incapable of being recovered or regained

How To Use irrecoverable In A Sentence

  • And most vivid do these scenes and people become when the vague and irrecoverable boy who walks among them carries a rod over his shoulder, and you detect the soft bulginess of wet fish about his clothing, and perhaps the tail of a big one emerging from his pocket. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
  • Her past was, in his words ‘out of sight and hearing, beyond reach, largely irrecoverable.’
  • One feels that certain things are irrecoverable because they are past.
  • The privatisation roller coaster when everyone was encouraged to become a shareholder left many with irrecoverable losses.
  • From the moment he commenced his turn the aircraft was almost immediately on its right wing tip and was irrecoverable.
  • History shows that, once lost, the democracy it guarantees is irrecoverable.
  • He added that this was the year for "a political showdown to rescue Japan from falling into an irrecoverable crisis. Japan Opposition Renews Calls for an Election Ahead of Consumption-Tax Debate
  • Read it again, lingering this time on "just one more try" and "another irrecoverable day slips by. Review of The Best of It by Kay Ryan
  • Yeo demanded that the government announce ‘in principle, compensation for farmers who suffer irrecoverable losses’.
  • As to the other two points, it was not suggested that the cost of repairs might be irrecoverable or that it might be uneconomic to recover it.
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